An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag. An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book, and an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography. It tells the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid. The Bang-Bang Club is the story of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photographs of the. Written by Greg and Joao, The Bang-Bang Club tells their uniquely powerful war stories. Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos. The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa.
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